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Posts tagged with 'isolation' at MetaFilter.Mon, 26 Oct 2015 09:49:48 -0800Mon, 26 Oct 2015 09:49:48 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60Walk against the wind. Climb mountains. Look to the North. More often.http://www.metafilter.com/154155/Walk%2Dagainst%2Dthe%2Dwind%2DClimb%2Dmountains%2DLook%2Dto%2Dthe%2DNorth%2DMore%2Doften
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/oct/26/evgenia-arbugaeva-weather-man-the-most-cut-off-man-on-earth-in-pictures">The most cut-off man on Earth.</a> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/oct/26/slava-of-the-arctic-worlds-most-extreme-weatherman-evgenia-arbugaeva-photographs">The story of Slava, a meteorologist who works at the most remote weather station on Earth and in a time capsule all his own.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.154155Mon, 26 Oct 2015 09:49:48 -0800KittehThe Terror and Tedium of Living Like Thoreauhttp://www.metafilter.com/152878/The%2DTerror%2Dand%2DTedium%2Dof%2DLiving%2DLike%2DThoreau
When you're alone in a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness, the simplest question becomes the most complicated: <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/the-terror-and-tedium-of-living-like-thoreau/402358/">How do you fill a day?</a> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.152878Thu, 10 Sep 2015 05:51:48 -0800paleyellowwithorangeI Am A Whittier Teacherhttp://www.metafilter.com/146755/I%2DAm%2DA%2DWhittier%2DTeacher
<a href="http://www.alaskapublic.org/2013/10/21/i-am-a-whittier-teacher/">Erika Thompson teaches grade school in Whittier, Alaska, a town where most people live and work in one building, and is only accessible by a miles-long tunnel with limited hours. [slyt]</a> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.146755Thu, 05 Feb 2015 05:08:12 -0800ellieBOAThe Wolfpackhttp://www.metafilter.com/146421/The%2DWolfpack
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/24/movies/the-wolfpack-tells-of-one-new-york-apartment-with-seven-children-locked-inside.html?_r=0">'The Wolfpack' Tells of One New York Apartment With Seven Children Locked Inside</a> (NYT). <a href="http://www.crystalmoselle.com/">Crystal Moselle's</a> documentary "The Wolfpack," premieres this Sunday at the <a href="http://www.sundance.org/">Sundance Film Festival</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ62U8hULsA&list=PL6ZRbzOlLQZCiT4tGv4f1Vbj2kTD2AbTG&index=97">A video interview with Crystal Moselle</a>. "It's quite a tale: Seven children, all with waist-length hair, are raised on welfare in a messy four-bedroom apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. And they are almost never allowed to leave the house. For years."
"Lending extra resonance to 'The Wolfpack,' particularly at Sundance, is one detail in particular. When they were not being home schooled by their mother, the boys - Bhagavan, Govinda, Narayana, Mukunda, Krisna and Jagadesh — and their sister, Visnu, were allowed to watch movies nonstop, on DVDs bought at a discount of borrowed from the library."
"Ms. Moselle said she first met the brothers in 2010 as they walked 'in a pack' down First Avenue. All of them were wearing black Ray-Ban sunglasses inspired by 'Reservoir Dogs,' and their long hair was blowing in the wind. 'I just started running after them to find out more and was instantly obsessed,' she said."
The poster, in "Reservoir Dog" style, can be found<a href="http://filmpulse.net/sundance-2015-intriguing-documentary-wolfpack-gets-poster/"> here</a>. (film pulse)
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-ca-wolfpack-sundance-20150125-story.html">'Wolfpack' follows 7 kids locked in an apartment, and raised on films</a> (LA Times)
<a href="http://www.indiewire.com/article/meet-the-2015-sundance-filmmakers-21-movies-are-literally-life-for-crystal-moselles-wolfpack-brothers-20150121">What if you grew up locked inside a New York City apartment, with only the movies to teach you of the world at large?</a> (indie wire) tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.146421Sat, 24 Jan 2015 06:19:55 -0800cwestOnce you have slept on an island, you'll never be quite the samehttp://www.metafilter.com/137273/Once%2Dyou%2Dhave%2Dslept%2Don%2Dan%2Disland%2Dyoull%2Dnever%2Dbe%2Dquite%2Dthe%2Dsame
<a href="http://external.bangordailynews.com/projects/2014/03/isleauhaut/index.html?utm_source=bangordailynews&amp;utm_medium=launcher">Six Miles Out</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.137273Fri, 07 Mar 2014 07:59:25 -0800anastasiavTouch Isolationhttp://www.metafilter.com/133919/Touch%2DIsolation
<a href="http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/megasahd-touch-isolation-how-homophobia-has-robbed-men-of-touch/">Touch Isolation: How Homophobia Has Robbed All Men of Touch</a>, a reflection prompted in part by <a href="http://www.artofmanliness.com/2012/07/29/bosom-buddies-a-photo-history-of-male-affection/">Bosom Buddies: A Photo History of Male Affection</a> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.133919Sun, 17 Nov 2013 11:55:01 -0800Pater AletheiasAin't No Prison Like The One I Gothttp://www.metafilter.com/128657/Aint%2DNo%2DPrison%2DLike%2DThe%2DOne%2DI%2DGot
<a href="http://creativetimereports.org/2013/05/06/tamms-is-torture-campaign-close-illinois-supermax-prison-solitary-confinement/">On The Tamms Poetry Committee</a>: <em>"One of the artists' initiatives was "photo requests from solitary." Prisoners on solitary would request photos and professional photographers would then shoot the request and send the photo back. <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2013/05/06/tamms-prison-project-makes-prisoners-dreams-come-true-photos.html#9e45d1da-090b-48c5-8c69-54188a7f0c1e">The gallery of prisoners requests</a> is surprising and poignant."</em> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.128657Sun, 02 Jun 2013 18:49:28 -0800artof.mulataAmerica's 10 Worst Prisonshttp://www.metafilter.com/128067/Americas%2D10%2DWorst%2DPrisons
<em>"'If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.' So goes the old saying. Yet conditions in some American facilities are so obscene that they amount to a form of extrajudicial punishment."</em> <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/topics/americas-worst-prisons">Mother Jones is profiling "America's 10 Worst Prisons."</a> Facilities were chosen for the list based on "...three years of research, correspondence with prisoners, and interviews with reform advocates." <strong>The List</strong>
1: <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/10-worst-prisons-america-part-1-adx">ADX</a> (federal supermax: <em>"A federal isolation facility that's "pretty close" to hell."</em>)
2: <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/10-worst-prisons-america-allan-polunsky-unit-texas-death-row">Allan B. Polunsky</a> Unit (Texas: <em>"'The hardest place to do time in Texas'—and then you die."</em>)
3: <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/10-worst-prisons-america-joe-arpaio-tent-city">Tent City Jail</a> (Phoenix: <em>Feds say notorious facility has a 'pervasive culture of discriminatory bias against Latinos.'</em>)
4: <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/10-worst-prisons-america-orleans-parish-opp">Orleans Parish</a> (Louisiana: <em>"'A violent and dangerous institution,' says the Justice Department.")</em>
5: <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/10-worst-prisons-america-la-county-jail-twin-towers">LA County Jail</a> (Los Angeles: <em>"And you thought the Rodney King beating was bad?"</em>)
6: <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/10-worst-prisons-america-pelican-bay">Pelican Bay</a> (California: "<em>Where a Christmas card might land you in the hole.</em>")
7: <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/americas-10-worst-prisons-julia-tutwiler">Julia Tutwiler</a> (Alabama: <em>"Prisoners fear 'that it's not safe to take a shower, that it's not safe to go to sleep...that you can be manipulated into sexual favors, it's really horrific.'"</em>)
8: <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/americas-10-worst-prisons-reeves-county-detention-complex">Reeves Country Detention Complex</a> (Texas: <em>"An overcrowded, understaffed lockup—with health care bad enough to spark riots."</em>)
9: <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/america-10-worst-prisons-walnut-grove-youth-correctional-facility-mississippi">Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility</a> (Mississippi:<em> "'A picture of such horror as should be unrealized anywhere in the civilized world.'"</em>)
10: <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/america-10-worst-prisons-rikers-island-new-york-city">Riker's Island</a> (New York City: <em>"New York City lockup has a "deeply entrenched" pattern of violence by guards, lawsuit claims."</em>)
The piece will conclude tomorrow with a list of "Dishonorable Mentions."
<strong>Accompanying Articles</strong> <em>(Some are older pieces covering the same topic)</em>
* <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/map-solitary-confinement-states">Maps: Solitary Confinement, State by State</a>: <em>"An exclusive review of how state prisons use isolation to discipline inmates and weed out gang members."</em>
* <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/07/burl-cain-angola-prison">God's Own Warden</a>: <em>"If you ever find yourself inside Louisiana's Angola prison, Burl Cain will make sure you find Jesus—or regret ever crossing his path."</em>
* <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/deaf-prisoners-felix-garcia">The Silent Treatment</a>: <em>"Imagine serving decades in prison for a crime your sibling framed you for. Now imagine doing it while profoundly deaf."</em>
* <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/solitary-confinement-shane-bauer">Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons</a>: <em>"We throw thousands of men in the hole for the books they read, the company they keep, the beliefs they hold. Here's why."</em> <small>(<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/121038/Solitary-Confinement">Previously on Mefi</a>)</small>
* <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/solitary-cell-graphic">Life in the Hole: Inside a Solitary Cell</a>: <em>"A guided tour of the seven-by-eleven-foot space where inmates spend 23 hours a day."</em> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.128067Tue, 14 May 2013 09:15:31 -0800zarqThe Taiga Lifehttp://www.metafilter.com/127649/The%2DTaiga%2DLife
Featured <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/124343/Old-Believers-in-the-wilderness">previously</a>, Vice does a <a href="http://youtu.be/tt2AYafET68">35 minute video</a> chronicling a rare visit to the sole surviving member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lykov_family">Lykov family</a>, <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/meet-the-last-lykov-000001-v20n4?Contentpage=-1">Agafia</a>. The Lykovs were a family of Old Believers (a splinter sect from the Russian Orthodox Church), who had exiled themselves to Siberia in 1936 to escape Soviet persecution, and remained in complete isolation until 1978 when a geological survey accidentally discovered their homestead. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.127649Thu, 02 May 2013 12:44:32 -08002N2222Space Oddityhttp://www.metafilter.com/122746/Space%2DOddity
<a href="http://www.flixist.com/the-cult-club-the-man-who-fell-to-earth-1976--212410.phtml">The Man who Fell to Earth</a> was <a href="http://www.timeout.com/newyork/film/nicolas-roeg-on-the-man-who-fell-to-earth">Nicholas Roeg's</a> Sci-fi classic featuring <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/9333719/David-Bowies-cocaine-alien-and-The-Man-Who-Fell-To-Earth.html">a fragile cocaine addicted David Bowie</a>, between his Thin White Duke days and his <a href="http://kamertunesblog.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/david-bowie-part-5-the-berlin-trilogy-1977-1979/">Berlin trilogy</a>, as a homesick alien falling into despair. Years later <a href="http://davidbowienews.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/duncan-jones/">Duncan Jones</a> - AKA Zowie Bowie, subject of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwStmG2B0-w">a sentimental song on Hunky Dory</a> - would make a Sci-Fi film of his own with <a href="http://www.ctzine.com/space-oddity-moon-and-the-man-who-fell-to-earth/">similar themes of isolation</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.122746Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:20:42 -0800ArtwLife on Matinicus Islandhttp://www.metafilter.com/121343/Life%2Don%2DMatinicus%2DIsland
<a href="http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/2011-09/features/matinicus-island/all">Life on Matinicus Island</a>: "Matinicus lies 23 miles out to sea, the most remote inhabited island on the Atlantic seaboard... one of a vast necklace of islands, more than 3,000 in all, spread out along the Maine coast as far north as the Bay of Fundy. A century ago, 200 or more of them were fishermen's communities; today, only 14 are inhabited year-round... Today, two years after putting a bullet into the neck of another lobsterman, in defense, he says, of his daughter, Vance Bunker is a pariah on the island: legally acquitted but privately unforgiven, widely but quietly reviled." <small>(via <a href="http://longform.org/2012/10/26/life-on-matinicus-island/">longform</a>)</small> tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.121343Sun, 28 Oct 2012 07:44:42 -0800flex"Cocaine for Snowblindness"http://www.metafilter.com/120484/Cocaine%2Dfor%2DSnowblindness
You're about to be the base doctor at Halley Research Station in Antarctica for a year. For ten months, no one gets in or out. Fourteen lives are in your hands, including your own. <a href="http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Shackletons-Medical-Kit">What do you put in your medical kit?</a> And how do your choices differ from <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/09/27/161881513/cocaine-for-snowblindness-what-polar-explorers-packed-for-first-aid">those of your predecessors</a> (Eric Marshall and Edward Wilson) a century ago? tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.120484Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:13:26 -0800zarqFacebook and sadnesshttp://www.metafilter.com/100030/Facebook%2Dand%2Dsadness
<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2282620/">By helping other people look happy, Facebook is making us sad.</a><em> The human habit of overestimating other people's happiness is nothing new, of course. Jordan points to a quote by Montesquieu: "If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are." But social networking may be making this tendency worse. Jordan's research doesn't look at Facebook explicitly, but if his conclusions are correct, it follows that the site would have a special power to make us sadder and lonelier. By showcasing the most witty, joyful, bullet-pointed versions of people's lives, and inviting constant comparisons in which we tend to see ourselves as the losers, Facebook appears to exploit an Achilles' heel of human nature. And women—an especially unhappy bunch of late—may be especially vulnerable to keeping up with what they imagine is the happiness of the Joneses.
</em> tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.100030Sat, 29 Jan 2011 07:59:45 -0800jason's_planetLong hard times in spacehttp://www.metafilter.com/94341/Long%2Dhard%2Dtimes%2Din%2Dspace
"Tubes of space borscht are on sale in the museum gift shop. "There are white and black tubes. On the white is written: 'BLONDE.' On black one: 'BRUNETTE.' "
Astronauts relate challenges of <a href="http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/life_in_a_box/P1/">life in space</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.94341Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:24:49 -0800ambient2Screaming is the Messagehttp://www.metafilter.com/89879/Screaming%2Dis%2Dthe%2DMessage
<a href="http://kotaku.com/5484581/japan-its-not-funny-anymore">Japan: It's not funny anymore</a> tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.89879Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:14:54 -0800anotherpanaceaFar, Far, Awayhttp://www.metafilter.com/82918/Far%2DFar%2DAway
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss">Get</a> <a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=253">aw</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru">ay</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiSpWiojA6o">fr</a><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4565369222910430105">o</a><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4298137966377572665">m</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_Islands">i<a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/01/pitcairn200801">t</a> <a href="http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/educational/watch/v76747648Awn6rnc">a</a><a href="http://www.visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=116">l</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_points_of_the_World#Remoteness">l</a><a href="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/396-you-take-it-no-you-take-it-the-bir-tawil-trapezoid/">.</a></a> <small>Nauru has been linked before, but I feel its worth mentioning in the context of this post.</small> tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.82918Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:01:48 -0800phrontistUnearthly Islandhttp://www.metafilter.com/74854/Unearthly%2DIsland
Even the inhabitants of<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socotra"> Socotra</a> might think some of their island is <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22334898@N00/345375849/sizes/l/">beautiful but a bit outré</a>.... <a href="http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/most-alien-looking-place-on-earth.html">Alien landscapes on Earth</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.74854Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:57:11 -0800Kronos_to_EarthClipperton or busthttp://www.metafilter.com/72736/Clipperton%2Dor%2Dbust
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=clipperton&ie=UTF8&ll=10.29803,-109.219208&spn=0.145588,0.260239&t=h&z=13">1200 kilometers southwest of Acapulco lies the only atoll in the eastern Pacific: one of France's most isolated overseas possessions</a>. First named for an English pirate/buccaneer/privateer, <a href="http://www.clipperton.org/harris.htm">written about here by one John Harris in 1744</a>, the island has changed hands numerous times: claimed by France as part of Tahiti, claimed by the US under the <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode48/usc_sec_48_00001411----000-.html">Guano Islands Act</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano_Islands_Act">1856</a>. The island remained uninhabited until 1906, when a British and Mexican mission began mining guano (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/world/americas/30peru.html?pagewanted=all">still in demand today</a>, <a href="http://www.guano-gro.com/">though sources can now be found a little closer to home</a>). The atoll was thought to have been polished off entirely by an earthquake rumored to have <em>sunk the islands outright</em> <a href="http://www.clipperton.org/newspapers%20004.jpg">in August of 1909</a>. Sovereignty over the atoll passed back and forth between France and Mexico again until the Vatican, given the task of arbitrating the dispute, passed the decision to the Emperor of Italy, who on January 28, 1931, decided that Clipperton was French: <a href="http://www.jstor.org/pss/2189797">JSTOR link here</a>. <small>(Full citation if you've got access: Edwin D. Dickinson, "The Clipperton Island Case". <em>The American Journal of International Law</em>, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Jan., 1933), pp. 130-133)</small>.
Since then, Clipperton has been the object of FDR's attention, who visited en route to the Galapagos in the hopes of creating a seaplane stop en route to Australia, an amateur radio enthusiast destination, <a href="http://diver.net/chris/2007.04.10-25/">a new destination for commercial diving operations</a> (huge album of photos!), and most recently a scientific research base, chronicled for English speakers in <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/08/0828_030829_milbrandjournal1.html">a 2003 National Geographic expedition</a> with Lance Milbrand, and televised for French viewers on the program <a href="http://www.jeanlouisetienne.com/clipperton/apropos6.htm">Expedition: Clipperton</a>, which <a href="http://www.jeanlouisetienne.com/clipperton/album.cfm">includes a fantastic, if Francophone, photo album of discoveries</a> made on the island, in its surrounding waters, and in its freshwater lagoon.
Google Books possesses a copy of a recent history of the island, <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=IW11azfKsZkC&pg=PA87&lpg=PA87&dq=clipperton+FDR&source=web&ots=0KWgmV-X9E&sig=37L-5syJlrdCqC3rB4_XHBM8PKk&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA89,M1"> which goes into the motivation for FDR's visit to the island in 1938</a>. <a href="http://www.qsl.net/clipperton2000/images/clipperton-ammo.jpg">Here's a shot of some leftover American ammunition</a>.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:CarteLocal.gif">Given the island's massive exclusive economic zone</a> - which covers an area nearly the size of metropolitan France itself - the place will certainly be on the radar from now on.
And no post about a isolated, uninhabited tropical island in 2008 would be complete without <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipperton">the Wikipedia article</a> that I found which started this little adventure today, and a link to a relevant Flickr photo set...in this case, <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/va7dx/sets/72157604221433086/">a set of amateur radio operators</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.72736Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:29:07 -0800mdonleyComing Homehttp://www.metafilter.com/70136/Coming%2DHome
<a href="http://www.nationalhomeless.org/faces/bios/jamesdavis.html">Homeless</a> <a href="http://www.nationalhomeless.org/faces/bios/augustmallory.html">people</a> are just too <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200604210003">lazy</a> to <a href="http://www.nationalhomeless.org/faces/bios/joannjackson.html">work</a>, <a href="http://www.nationalhomeless.org/faces/bios/brendaleewilson.html">aren't they</a>? Besides, they <a href="http://www.downtownmemphis.com/domain/cleansafe/cleansafe_panhandling.asp#story1">panhandle</a> to get by, so what's the <a href="http://www.homelessamerican.com/misconceptions.html">big</a> deal? What does it mean to be <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/homeless/">homeless</a> <small>[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/60481/Ziggy-The-Bagman">previously</a>]</small> anyway? How do people find themselves in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsSIokfbuGg">these</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVHwYkk5hBM">sorts</a> of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THdLdJDc6go&feature=related">situations</a>, and <a href="http://www.homeless.org.au/people/elle.htm">why</a> can't they get <a href="http://www.homeless.org.au/people/melissa.htm"> out</a> of <a href="http://www.homeless.org.au/people/james.htm"> them</a>? How do they <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl0_fmBkG0s">feel</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySEW3f1mBwk&feature=related">about</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oGuv1Kwqdo&feature=related">it</a>? And are there any <a href="http://www.endhomelessness.org/section/tools/essentials/plan">alternatives</a> that we can <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/08/21/MNGA5EB32P1.DTL">supply</a> <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/25/MNG93FTTJ81.DTL">them</a> <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?o=2&f=/c/a/2005/05/21/MNGAVCSQBP1.DTL">with</a>? tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.70136Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:57:28 -0800hadjiboyThis Dying Cityhttp://www.metafilter.com/68878/This%2DDying%2DCity
<a href="http://www.rustinmccann.com/galleries/dyingCity.html">Cleveland is dying, and it is beautiful.</a> A collection of stark photographs of Cleveland as it is dying before our very eyes. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.68878Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:52:28 -0800JazznoisehereSuburban Moscow only seems like outer spacehttp://www.metafilter.com/64481/Suburban%2DMoscow%2Donly%2Dseems%2Dlike%2Douter%2Dspace
<a href="http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/sep07/marsxtra">Russians are planning a trip to Mars,</a> but first they want to better understand the psychological and practical issues involved with long, isolated human travel. So the Russian <a href="http://www.imbp.ru/webpages/engl/welcom.html">Institute for Biomedical Problems</a> will be locking volunteers into a small, closed system for ~500 days. <a href="http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMYNY6DWZE_Life_0.html">The ESA is collaborating on the so-called Mars500 project</a>. There is a current <a href="http://www.esa.int/esaHS/SEMAJPXXV2F_index_0.html">call out for volunteers</a> which is open until the end of this month. Communication with the outside world will be possible during the experiment, but it will be time-delayed to simulate radio transmission from a remote spacecraft back to earth. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.64481Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:00:38 -0800dkgIsolation in Americahttp://www.metafilter.com/52502/Isolation%2Din%2DAmerica
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/22/AR2006062201763_pf.html">Are we getting lonelier?</a> tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.52502Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:34:22 -0800digamanScrutiny on the Bounty.http://www.metafilter.com/18514/Scrutiny%2Don%2Dthe%2DBounty
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=115957">Scrutiny on the Bounty.</a> After investigating a single rape charge, a British prosecutor assigned to Pitcairn Island, the refuge of the <i>Bounty</i> mutineers, began interviewing young girls. Now <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/07/17/nz.pitcairn.ap/index.html">20 Pitcairn men may be charged</a>; the island's entire population is just 44. (Most Pitcairners were removed to <a href="http://www.nf/">Norfolk Island</a>, near Australia, in the 19th century; despite the precarious existence, some descendants returned to Pitcairn and have insisted on remaining.) The primary defense is that the island was following Polynesian customs with an age of consent as young as 12; but many Pitcairners are indistinguishable from European expats, and many spend much of their lives in New Zealand or Australia for school or work. Until recently the island's <a href="http://www.lareau.org/pitc.html">inhabitants</a> {official site} mainly worried about <a href="http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=78770&contrassID=3&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=0">underpopulation</a> and <a href="http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/2000/01/26/pitcairn/print.html">economic isolation</a> despite touting a communal, agrarian lifestyle.
"It's like a small English town," said a teacher who spent two years there. "But you can't get away." tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.18514Wed, 17 Jul 2002 16:15:43 -0800dhartungRead this.http://www.metafilter.com/6723/Read%2Dthis
<a href="http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/3/30/4410/84525">Read this.</a> No, really. It's worth your time. tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.6723Mon, 02 Apr 2001 11:37:54 -0800baylink